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The paid service – which offers access to online play in compatible games like Splatoon 2 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a selection of NES titles with online play, the ability to backup game saves in the cloud, and more – will launch on Tuesday, Sept. 18

Xbox All Access will offer an Xbox One console, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox Game Pass for a monthly subscription fee. You'll no longer need to buy anything Xbox, just rent it all month-to-month as long as you sign up for two years.

From Software's trilogy of unforgiving action role-playing games are being packaged together in a steelbook along with all their DLC packs and sold for $80 this October. Prepare to die a lot, but spare a thought for Switch owners who only get the first game this year.

On Sept. 4, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will exit the Xbox Game Preview program, and to help celebrate the full product release Microsoft is offering a limited edition PUBG Xbox controller complete with trigger grips.

Blizzard confirmed last week that Diablo III will makes its way on to Switch before the end of the year in Eternal Collection form. But before we get to play it, we can see how good it looks when played in handheld mode on the hybrid console.

If you missed Diablo III on PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, and Xbox One, the wait was probably worth it as the Switch is getting a version with all the content bundled as well as some impressive multiplayer options thrown in.

The video games industry within China has been thrown into turmoil as it comes to light new game licenses have not been approved for months. Billions have been knocked of the market value of Chinese media giants such as Tencent with no clear end in sight.

Both consoles are selling incredibly well, with the PS4 about to pass the PS3 for lifetime sales and the Switch will soon have sold more units than the GameCube. Meanwhile, Microsoft doesn't like to talk about hardware sales anymore.

In a bid to better compete with Discord and bring users back to Steam for their discussions, Valve rolls out a 'richer chat experience' which includes a new friends list, multimedia features, group chats, and clear, crisp, encrypted voice chat.

It looks as though Microsoft is set to disrupt the next generation of gaming hardware by launching both a traditional console and a streaming box, both of which play the same games and will be branded Xbox. Which one would you buy?

Games consoles regularly receive hardware updates so as to improve performance or reduce cost. This latest model update by Sony suggests the new PS4 isn't much different, but is now cheaper to manufacture thanks to some internal component tweaks.